The Day My Butt Went Psycho!

By Andy Griffiths
Scholastic, 2003
8-12
2/5

Zack's butt has run away and appears to be leading a butt rebellion. Determined to stop it, Zack embarks on a butt-blasting adventure with the B-Team (the Kicker, the Smacker, and the Kisser) and Eleanor, the Butt Hunter's daughter. In the end, Zack and his friends must stop the explosion of a buttcano and defeat the Great White Butt.

This book comes with a warning for parents, teachers, and other adults that they will not like this story because they "won't understand it" and "will be totally grossed out by it": this is certainly very accurate! While Griffith's The Day My Butt Went Psycho! is creative, it is very disgusting. Unwiped butts, the smell of methane, and pimple-popping figure largely in the plot.

The quality is poor at best, but I can see this book having a strong appeal to boys in elementary school.